LEGIONS OF STEEL FESTIVAL RETURNS
The Legions of Steel Festival is back for its third year in a row. The event returns to The Bendigo Hotel to showcase the best of Australian heavy metal. On Sunday June 12 check out Vanishing Point, In Malice’s Wake, Harlott, Taberah (TAS), Envenomed, Asylum (QLD), Shadow Realm (SA), Espionage, Sudden State and Skärlet. Tickets are on sale now via legionsofsteel.bigcartel.com for $17, or $20 at the door on the night.
THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE RECREATES PULSE
Too young to have seen Pink Floyd live? Or maybe you did, and want to relive the magic? The Pink Floyd Experience recreate Floyd’s Pulse CD/DVD at The Palais Theatre in St Kilda on Saturday June 11. On this tour the Experience recreates Pink Floyd’s landmark stadium show from The Division Bell tour, which featured many of Pink Floyd’s biggest hits including a live performance of the entire Dark Side Of The Moon album.
A DAY TO REMEMBER ANNOUNCE STUDIO ALBUM SIX
Worldwide metalcore/pop punk phenomenon A Day To Remember have announced their highly-anticipated sixth studio album, Bad Vibrations, led by the video for the huge title-track. The Floridian five-piece have spent the three years since their critically acclaimed Common Courtesy touring relentlessly around the globe, including the recent Big Ass Tour Australian tour, and will drop their latest blazing effort on Friday August 19 via ADTR Records/Epitaph. Pre-orders via iTunes or bundles via smarturl.it/ADTRAus include instant downloads for Bad Vibrations and Paranoia.
SHEFEST AT MR BOOGIE MAN BAR
SheFest showcases and celebrates women in music and is back on the Queen’s Birthday holiday at Mr Boogie Man Bar. Catch Kat O, Astrohym, Triumph Over Logic, Prophetess, Subrosa and Asylum Sisters all for only $15, from 4pm.
ROCK ’N A HARD PLACE FESTIVAL
Regional rockers Black Aces bring you Rock ‘n A Hard Place Festival, a stellar mini festival featuring a lineup hand-picked by the band themselves. Having always wanted to put on their own festival, the words “bugger it, let’s bloody do it” were uttered, and Rock n’ A Hard Place was born. Catch psychedelic heavy blues trio Two Headed Dog, funky blues-rockers Smoke Stack Rhino plus long time Melbourne rock royalty The Casanovas. From Sydney, Celtic rockers The Bitter Sweethearts, Dellacoma Rio (back in Australia from a slew of US dates), and Adelaide hard rock kings Tracer, fresh from their European tour. Of course the lads from Black Aces couldn’t throw their own festival without chucking themselves in the mix. Be at The Tote in Collingwood on Saturday June 25.
WIL WAGNER ANNOUNCES SOLO SHOWS
Having toured Australia and the globe relentlessly, The Smith Street Band are about to embark on one last run around the country with acclaimed album Throw Me In The River. With the full run of dates sold out except for a second Perth show, frontman Wil Wagner has announced two solo shows in Melbourne and Sydney. They’ll be his biggest solo shows to date, and you can catch him at the Corner Hotel in Richmond on Friday August 19. He’ll be joined by friend and musical compadre Jeff Rosenstock (Bomb The Music Industry!). A New Yorker but no stranger to Australia, Rosenstock played a string of dates in March this year around his own solo release, We Cool? and has previously joined Wagner on tour in Australia and America, not to mention he produced Throw Me In The River. Tickets on sale now from thesmithstreetband.com.
